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Kant S1, Gupta H, Ahluwalia S.
Critical reviews in food science and nutrition.Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr.2015 Jun 7;55(7):955-63. doi: 10.1080/10408398.2012.679500.
Malnutrition and tuberculosis are both problems mostly of the developing countries. Tuberculosis can lead to malnutrition and malnutrition may predispose to tuberculosis. Poor nutrition leads to protein-energy malnutrition and micronutrients deficiencies which lead to immunodeficiency. This secondar
PMID 24915351

Latest consensus and update on protein-energy wasting in chronic kidney disease.

Obi Y1, Qader H, Kovesdy CP, Kalantar-Zadeh K.
Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care.Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care.2015 May;18(3):254-62. doi: 10.1097/MCO.0000000000000171.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Protein-energy wasting (PEW) is a state of metabolic and nutritional derangements in chronic disease states including chronic kidney disease (CKD). Cumulative evidence suggests that PEW, muscle wasting and cachexia are common and strongly associated with mortality in CKD, which is
PMID 25807354

Protein Energy Malnutrition during Vaccination Has Limited Influence on Vaccine Efficacy but Abolishes Immunity if Administered during Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection.

Hoang T1, Agger EM1, Cassidy JP2, Christensen JP3, Andersen P4.
Infection and immunity.Infect Immun.2015 May;83(5):2118-26. doi: 10.1128/IAI.03030-14. Epub 2015 Mar 9.
Protein energy malnutrition (PEM) increases susceptibility to infectious diseases, including tuberculosis (TB), but it is not clear how PEM influences vaccine-promoted immunity to TB. We demonstrate that PEM during low-level steady-state TB infection in a mouse model results in rapid relapse of Myco
PMID 25754202